InaPickle getting out of a pickle!

InaPickle

ruby_eskimo wrote: »

Just catching up on the thread! Hope your mum feels better soon, it seems to be making the rounds in the igloo down here!

Hehe! And there was me thinking I was the only person to take on the persona of her username! :rotfl: (Hope you are all well soon.)

ruby_eskimo wrote: »

I'm so jealous that you got to meet some of the lovely ladies from the forum! I have a sneaking suspicion that there are a few people who live near me on the forum but I'm too chicken to come out and ask them!

Well, one wasn't a native but was visiting, so it was a rare treat, and the others were all attending Memory Girl's workshop, else I wouldn't have had the guts either. However, all the people I met were just as nice in real life as they appear on the forum, which was great. :T

Have some updates that I will make in a bit when I've rescued my dinner (pizza) from the oven. How healthy!

InaPickle

GAH! Just wrote a mid-length post and lost it! :mad: :mad: :mad:

InaPickle

Semi-virtuous day today:

Returned a cookery book I bought and realised I don't need or particularly want as it's not quite as good as it says on the tin: £13 refunded (although buying it at the time got me an extra discount on the overall purchase, so technically I'm quids in, even though that wasn't the original intention).

Am returning a set of pens I paid £5.99 for tomorrow as I'm being naughty and returning them as I got a much better deal elsewhere , but needs must.

Am also returning some boots I bought for Best Friend's Christmas present as they don't fit, as well as a pair I impulse-purchased for myself at the same time as, funnily enough, they don't fit, even though they did the day I tried them on in the shop. (?!?) That's good for me (£32.88 refund for each pair), but means I have to try to find BF another Christmas present. Drat!

Have also been extremely good and returned a pair of boots I had home from work for a think about as I wouldn't really have too much that went with them (I got overexcited cos they fit, which is still a rarity in the boot department!).

Cor, I sound like I've gone a bit mad lately, don't I?

In my defence, the pens were for Memory Girl style mindmapping (on her recommendation, might I add!), and I am going to feel rich once all this money hits my account/card. I'm going to try to secrete the money from the pair of boots I would have kept to go towards my musical instrument, as if they had fitted I would have had to have done without it anyway, so it's just more money to the music fund. (I'm well aware that cos it's Christmas I might have to transfer it back, but it will look nice just for the moment anyway!)

Also, I ordered the instrument! :eek: :eek: So now, every penny has to go towards paying for that. Then I realised that I'm supposed to be enrolling for the sports massage course in January, and still saving! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Anyone know a good bank worth robbing? :rotfl:

taxi73

Well done on ordering the instrument and returning stuff to the shops.

REDMADCURLS

Excellent days' returning Pickle - very well done!

And I am delighted you bought the instument, it will be something you can cherish all your days!

Radish72

Well done on returning all your stuff

I have bought my BF a chocolate pizza for her birthday next week, as it something a bit different plus she is a chocoholic

Do you never sleep either

InaPickle

NorthernLas wrote: »

All I was worried about was whether you would remember me as the 'mad woman' who brought cake :rotfl:

Happy Friday - hope you managed some sleep (1.15am naughty Pickle )

Not much, really...but it's my own fault. I had a very late one last night as well. I need to remind my body clock that night is meant for sleep.

And I definitely don't remember a mad woman who brought cake. There was a nice one, however, who brought most excellent cake, and she kindly gave my the recipe afterwards. Double winner! :T

As for languages, I have a degree in French and a Masters in translating and interpreting the stuff, hence the reference to languages.

Hope you are well, and next time you pop by I will have tea and cake ready. And if you call late on a Friday or Saturday, possibly a glass of wine and/or a G&T!

InaPickle

£5.99 refund obtained for the pens, which has duly gone into the Musical Instrument Fund (hereon known as 'MIF'). I hope I don't have to take it out later.

What else? Spent £3.48 on special offers on Coke, plus £1 on two advent calenders for PickleBrother and me as we have so far been deprived this year. (Us too old for such childishness? Never! )

I also returned some books to the library and got 3 more I had ordered out. Since I did my inventory on the 'No More Buying Books...' thread, I have made it my intention to work my way through the ones I own first, so apart from returning them, it should be my last visit back there for a good while. (Pity, nice librarians have we.)

And I NEED TO GO TO BED! What am I doing up at this hour? This is mad!

P.S. Laptop is being a bit naughty so if I disappear for a while, you know why!

NorthernLas

Blimey Pickle, surely there must be an income stream in those languages for the MIF!!! Should your instrument be a melodian, I have one going spare in a cupboard somewhere :j

My top tips for making myself go to bed
- a couple of hours before I intend to go, I put the laptop on battery. When it dies it is beddy bo bo time
- I have found that if I am on here after midnight, I wake up and don't get to bed for ages. Really nothing is gonna happen that is earth shattering overnight, so you may as well go to bed
- I am far too old to be doing this on a 'school night'. Do it when you have your weekend This is not sad, it is taking yourself by the hand and being kind to yourself.
- Go to the nearest co-op pharmacy and buy a microwave beanie animal. They are lovely to cuddle and are half price (£6 not £12)

... here endeth the lesson AMEN :rotfl::rotfl:

InaPickle

NorthernLas wrote: »

Blimey Pickle, surely there must be an income stream in those languages for the MIF!!!

Part of me needs to get it sorted as there is, but I kind of have had my name out there and as per usual with languages it seems that everyone wants to speak them, and nobody wants to pay for them. *Rolls eyes*

NorthernLas wrote: »

Should your instrument be a melodian, I have one going spare in a cupboard somewhere :j

Bless you, Northernlas, but it is not. But that's a very, very kind offer. Thank you!

NorthernLas wrote: »

My top tips for making myself go to bed
- a couple of hours before I intend to go, I put the laptop on battery. When it dies it is beddy bo bo time

Given how poorly my laptop battery is at the minute, that would be all of five seconds! :rotfl: Even the charger is not working properly as there is a problem connecting it.

NorthernLas wrote: »

- Go to the nearest co-op pharmacy and buy a microwave beanie animal. They are lovely to cuddle and are half price (£6 not £12)

I've already got a lovely blue teddy bear, but he's a bit big for the microwave, to be honest. I might have to dig out my electric blanket and bind his limbs together to fit him in. It seems very mean to a nice teddy, though: it's bad enough putting him in the mocrowave!

NorthernLas wrote: »

... here endeth the lesson AMEN :rotfl::rotfl:

Yes miss. Sorry miss. I'll go to bed early tonight miss. *Sniff, sniff* :rotfl: